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E52: Emotions as concepts
An elaboration on episode 49's description of the brain as a prediction engine, focusing on a theory of what emotions are, how they're learned, and how emotional exper...
E51: Constructed memories (a nugget)
Memories appear to be constructed by plugging together stored templates. Do concepts operate the same way? Sources Suzi Travis, "False Memories are Exactly What You Ne...
E50: the preferred level of abstraction (a nugget)
We see a creature near us, and we describe it as a dog. Why that and not "mammal" or "animal"? And if that dog's a Springer Spaniel, and we know it's a Springer Spanie...
E49: Metaphors and the predictive brain
It's fairly pointless to analyze metaphors in isolation. They're used in a cumulative way as part of real or imagined conversations. That meshes with a newish way of u...
E48: Multiple metaphors
When we name a class name `Invoice`, are we communicating or thinking metaphorically? I used to think we were; now I think we aren't. This episode explains one reason:...
